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June 2024 by Flora Esser
So good
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April 2024 by Candice Burggraf
Only way you can look at class schedules is if you create an account, which I had no luck figuring out. I want to see something easy and convenient to look at.
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January 2021 by Stephanie Wojtkowski
My daughter has been dancing at DWSD for 9 years. She loves the teachers, the friends she has made over the years, and the ability to learn many styles of dance. I have been very impressed with the strategies DWSD has used to keep my daughter safe during COVID. I feel feel safe sending her and am so happy that while so many things in her life are virtual right now she has the chance to physically go to dance class. Thank you DWSD for giving my daughter a wonderful dance experience!
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January 2021 by Joanna Jefferson
DWSD is great! My daughter's teachers are talented and creative, they foster a wonderful environment of collaboration, and encourage all of the students to push themselves to be better dancers in a supportive and safe way. Thank you!!
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January 2021 by Yun Ling
The rate is very expensive, but I am fine with it as long as they took good care of the teaching as well as the performance experience every year. But this year, covid-19, I totally understand they change the class to virtue class, but for the performance, they also use the virtue and don't want to refund any expense on the cost of the dress. The dress is very expensive and could only be used once! But this year, it is not even used once! They should have some kind of recycle program, this is really waste one year after one year. They don't think any to their customer, only think about how to earn more money. Several of our parents already discussed together about this recently that we won't join their class this year, and will not even after this pandemic. Their philosophy is not education, but money!You are the business, I am the customer! What ever you did before and now is for your business which is included in your budget. The budget is from your profit of this year and can also be extended to the years before. Are you a non-profit business?? NO, like another reviewer said" you are a Money hungry". Business is the one who provide service to their customer and customer makes payment for the service. The virtue performance is not the service that we were promised to offer!. It is true the current situation is not expected, but why you want the customer to take 100% responsibility for this unexpected thing??? why??? OK, ok, you don't have to answer, and I don't want to see any of your explanation. If I thought maybe some day I would go back to your school, now, after seeing your reply, I would never go back. It is true, you have your own freedom to choose the way you operate your business, the same, me and my friends also have our option and freedom not to receive your "perfect service"!!!
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January 2021 by Karianne Dunifin
I can’t say anything about their dance school but I can say that they don’t care about their customers who buy from their boutique!I bought a pair of tap shoes from them about a week ago. I found a pair that fit me on clearance and I was excited about that! Who wouldn’t be?? She had mentioned that I would not be able to return them which I was fine with because why would I need to? But keep in mind, that is ALL she said.I went to my dance class, first time ever wearing the shoes and one of the heels snaps off... within the first 20 minutes of class! I called them because obviously that’s not okay? The person who answered the phone had said “They were on clearance for a reason, buy some glue and it SHOULD stay for you.”(The heel was not broken in the store)You’re kidding, right? So now when I buy something on clearance that still costed me $25, I’m expected to know that they could break? After the first class? After the first 20 minutes?Terrible customer service and frankly they just don’t care about YOU! Not to mention, false advertisement?? If you knew there could be a problem with the shoes, why was nothing ever said to me? Because I would’ve just spent the extra $20 on a non-defective shoe!!! But now because they refuse to do anything to help me, I have to either 1. go buy glue and risk the heel breaking again or 2. go buy a SECOND pair and waste the $25 I spent on these because apparently I was supposed to know they could break AFTER THE FIRST 20 MINUTES OF WEARING THEM.This was my first time visiting but this experience told me everything I needed to know about Debby Werbrouck. Money hungry. If this is what their boutique is like, I would hate to see how their dance classes are ran. Must be a nightmare. 100% don’t recommend.
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January 2020 by Evan Claudeanos
Very well organized. My daughter took ballet, jazz, and tap classes there starting when she was three and loved the school and her teachers. She and my son were also students at the accompanying preschool, Academy Arts, and felt very much at home there. I recommend both the dance school and the preschool wholeheartedly.
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January 2020 by Jedadiah Heavner
Friendly staff who truly care for their students
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January 2019 by Allison Doctor
I absolutely love dancing at Debbie Werbrouck’s! The dance instructors are extremely talented and dedicated to their students, and the environment is very welcoming.
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January 2019 by Bri Feltz
I have grown up dancing at Debbie Werbroucks and I have had nothing but positive experiences! I highly recommend this dance studio to everyone looking for a well rounded dance studio.
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January 2019 by Jaden r
I’ve been dancing here since I was 3 and I’ve loved every day of it!!
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January 2018 by Keshava Mysore
My daughter just started her preschool here. A simple learning environment
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January 2017 by Elizabeth Megyese
Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance is not only a top notch dance and music school but also became and has remained a major positive place in my life. The faculty is top notch from the office staff to the teachers. They offer Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, and Modern. DWSD offers growth opportunities which include a performing dance group, Christopher's Christmas as well as travel opportunities to dance overseas! DWSD is second to none!
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January 2017 by Haley M
I grew up dancing at Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance (taking classes there from 4 years of age to 18 years). Until late middle school, dance was a hobby. It was fun, mentally stimulating, and kept me active. As a child with virtually no depth perception and therefore no ability to throw, catch, and kick, Debbie's gave me the opportunity to engage in a "team" activity that encouraged practice and and self-discipline without making me feel like I was responsible for a loss or like I had failed. Even as a young child, I was being taught so much more than just great technique.At Debbie Werbrouck's, I learned self and spatial awareness, critical thinking skills, and personal morale and manners. My mom still reminds me about the ways in which she saw my early dance training at Debbie's aid me outside of the studio. For example: my kindergarten report card read "Haley is a good cookie with good posture." and 14 out of my 26 letters in my Alphabet Autobiography had to do with the dance studio.The atmosphere at Debbie's, especially as I got older and began to take more classes, gave me a second family. The older students and junior company members were some of my biggest role models growing up. I watched them train at the studio, be accepted into great colleges or get professional dance work, and carry themselves very differently than most teenagers were apt to. They fulfilled the roles of older siblings by offering advice and care as student demonstrators and helpers at recitals and even went so far as to help with homework at the studio on Saturdays (3 classes on Saturdays plus Christopher's Christmas rehearsals).The instructors never failed to give individual attention. Julie Bodle (instructor and assistant director) was like a second mom to me and was a huge rock (along with Debbie and the rest of the faculty) when my parents divorced. Jaci Mullins is largely responsible for my personal successes in dance, spending extra time outside of classes to research and help me apply for summer intensives and college dance programs.***I am now a year out of college and out of all of the times I've been able to visit home, there has only been maybe once or twice that I didn't make it by the studio to see my second family - and that's really only because it's a holiday and the studio is closed! Haha!***Late middle school was when I decided that I wanted to pursue dance as a career and Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance gave me every tool I needed to do it. In high school, I was spending 30+ hours dancing. I was the varsity captain of my school's dance team, serving at a restaurant, studying, training, and teaching at Debbie's and graduated 11th in my class. My parents' friends were questioning why they would let their "smart" daughter go to college to dance. My parents, as the amazing supporters they are, would say "you're right, she's smart, and we know she'll make things work." They knew that they (and Debbie's) instilled in me a sense of self-discipline that would enable me to do what I love and support myself.Now, after graduating in four years with a B.S in Kinesiology and Dance and a certificate in Journalism from Indiana University, we know that they were right. I am currently living in Chicago, dancing for three companies - one of which iI founded myself and is currently being incorporated, teaching dance for a University of Chicago Charter school, an after-school program, and Kenwood School of Ballet, and running educational programming for a third consecutive summer. I absolutely love what I do and am able to support myself (and even pay off student loans)!I know for a fact that I would not be where I am, as happy as I am, if it weren't for Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance. I've seen as a dancer, a young woman, and an educator how useful dance education can be in a child's life. I've now taken class and taught for many different studios/programs in the midwest and in NYC
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January 2017 by Lauren Bergstrand
This studio is a wonderful place to study dance! The community that works and studies here is awesome. I fell in love with dance at this studio, and it has been one of the great blessings in my life!
